My Tho was a provincial city in Tien Giang Province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam, serving as the provinces capital until 1 July 2025, when Vietnams elimination of district-level administrative units ended its status as a separate municipal city. As of 2019 its population was about 270,700 across 81.55 square kilometers. The city was founded in the 1680s by Chinese refugees fleeing the fall of the Southern Ming dynasty and grew into a major commercial hub; Frances capture of the city in 1862 marked the establishment of the French colony of Cochinchina. My Tho serves as a regional center of economics, education and technology for the Mekong Delta and is known for river tourism and its distinctive noodle soup, hu tieu My Tho.
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1. GeoNames: Mỹ Tho
GeoNames geonameid 1574023 (Mỹ Tho), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API): Opentopodata SRTM 90 m elevation at 10.3581,106.3642
Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API)SRTM 90 m elevation of the city point (10.3581,106.3642); band thresholds: below 10 m sea level, 10 to under 200 m lowland, 200 to under 1000 m highland, 1000 m and over mountainQuote, SRTM 90 m elevation of the city point (10.3581,106.3642); band thresholds: below 10 m sea level, 10 to under 200 m lowland, 200 to under 1000 m highland, 1000 m and over mountain
"elevation": 7.0
3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 10.25, 106.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 10.25, 106.25
10.25 106.25 Aw
4. GeoNames: Mỹ Tho - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1574023, place matched by name within the country (most populous of the name)Quote, cities500 record 1574023, place matched by name within the country (most populous of the name)
10.36004 106.35996 P PPLA VN 82 815 270700 2 Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh
My Tho (city) (Wikipedia)
Mỹ Tho (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of South-eastern Asia (World), LeadQuote, In Group: Cities of South-eastern Asia (World), Lead
Mỹ Tho is a place name in southern Vietnam.
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